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Ethiopia
Photographer: Andreas Richter | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalAs no. 243 [III A 1010 a,b] The frame, however, has an elongated, rhombic frame. The type of board joint is unclear. The neck is thickened to a square shape and wrapped in leather where a cylindrical wooden peg is inserted at the back. Leather strap windings above the string attachment on the peg. The end knot at the lower end of the string was buttoned through the narrowed spout of a simple loop. A leather pouch and a leather carrying strap are attached. The tip of the neck is not carved. The bow is an evenly bent square piece of wood. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)